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A57626	A rope for Pol, or, A hue and cry after Marchemont Nedham, the late surrulous news-writer being a collection of his horrid blasphemies and revilings against the king's majesty, his person, his cause, and his friends, published in his weekly Politicus.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1928; ESTC R19527	33,291	50

Parliament that they used all the wayes under heaven by Petitioning Declaring Remonstrating to God and man in hope to reduce him and though all would not doe yet notwithstanding that desperate remedy of the Sword was forborn till after he had first taken it up and that invincible necessity did put it into their hands for the preservation of themselves with the Rights and Liberties of the People After this it was wicked reason of State that continued Monarchy and brought in a Scotchman upon us This was Iames who was so great an admirer of Reason of State that he adopted it for his own Darling by the name of King-craft and his Motto no Bishop no King shewed that he preferred reason of State before Interest of Religion as in other things before Honesty witnesse among many other his quitting the Cause of God and the Palatinate to keep fair with the House of Austria for which and for the same Reason of State put in practise by his Son Charles for the ruine of Religion and Liberty by a bloody War the whole Family hath been brought to a sad destruction Yet Reason of State is still the grand Idol of the present Youngster villainously endeavouring to scandalize our most gracious Soveraign It made him first resolve to joyn with the Irish but things not falling out to his mind there it made him wheel about into Scotland and turn Covenanter Afterwards it made him cast off the Covenant and Covenanters both together and therefore no doubt but the next wheeling will be towards Rome or any way if Reason of State require it that he may finish the transgressions of the Family It must not be forgotten what hazard our Nation hath ran of late through the malice of falshood and faction of the late Presbyterian drivers He that will remember what they did in the year 1647 48 49 50 and 51 must needs confesse that great hath been the deliverance of this Commonwealth and the manner of it almost incredible considering the wayes and means whereby we have been rescued out of the claws of the old Tyranny From the Hague Here are dayly productions of Pamphlets so simple as not worth naming There is a Kite abroad entituled England possessed with the Devil wherein all are converted to Devils Dogs Serpent tayles King-murtherers Villains and I know not what but after all he flings you into the bottomlesse pit there to be kept close prisoners that Charles the second may be restored to his Fathers Throne and become a friend to the Netherlands and receive bribes as his Father Grandfather and their Courtiers did to betray the Trade and Interest of England that these men may catch Herrings in the Sea in peace and tickle the Trouts in a corrupt Monarchy and bait them now and then with a Golden Gudgeon whil'st they draw the wealth of the World hither into this Bog through English Channels but if ever they truck with young Stewart as some would have them I 'le send you word immediately for if once they be so mad as to become your irreconcileable enemies I suppose I cannot send you more welcome newes into England than of an uniting with that Bloody House which hitherto hath drawn a swift and inevitable ruine and curse upon all its partakers Another Pamphleteer entitles himself the Batavian Admonisher he is full of Rapture too though in Prose and brings in the Belgick Bear I mean you and Van Trump together and the first work he doth is to rouse the Lyon and make him seize upon poor Britain with his paws that it may become Holland's portion Rise up saith he O Lyon magnanimous Lyon yes then lie down again that Charles Stuart and his young Nephew may get up and ride thee and pick thy teeth with thine own bundle of Arrows O brave Lyon strut and be stately for the Princesse Royal is in Love with thee and means to make a trim shock of thee for the little boy to play with thee O magnanimous Lyon Salmasius that dirty and most dissolute Parasite of Kings is to be set on work by Authority which is an ill sign that a Cause should want colour of his tempering to point it over and give it a Strumpets face that it may passe the more currant to delude the World This is that Salmasius who railed so admirably under pretence of defending that foul Cause of Stewarts who broached such wild principles as are not onely prejudicial to Princes themselves but even to humane society And thus much young Stewart was told to his face out of the Pulpit even upon the day of his Coronation at Scone by Mr. Robert Douglas where he condemned that Hireling Salmasius before the Face of the Tyrant Would be They are much exalted at St. German's to hear the Zealanders are so zealous for the house of Orange that they have in a manner given their Vote for making the young Brat Stadtholder by which newes Charles hopes to have a finger in the Pie Likewise the pretended Duke of York returned lately to the French Camp Charles Stuart lurks still at St. German's being tost and tumbled betwixt hopes and fears Lorain is a strange fellow for Plunder of Waggons Carriages or Houses he transcends even the Palatine Rupert The People are generally weary of War and the Court of Charles Stuart whom they would willingly supply with money to take a Journey out of France if he knew whether to bend his course Charles Stuart is gone back to the house of the Duke of Cheiureuse to spend some little time in pleasure there and then return to Paris Sure his affairs are defunct because the Ranters about him are very pensive and silent which is not usual when the World goes on their side Here are divers Commissions brought into this Countrey which run in the Name of a King of Scots but whether any such thing as a King of Scots Commissions as they call them be of any validity it will concern you in England to determine that question when you catch any of them that shall venter to rob at Sea under pretence of acting by his Commission Sir Richard Brown who would be called the Scottish Kings Resident is by the Heels still under the Sergeants hands that arrested him to the great reproach of his Master's Kingship The pretended Duke of York is still in the Army and hath got another Regiment but it is Irish Ormond also hath got such another The Lord Digby hath been here and shewed himself a great favourite he hath gotten fairly by his Government of Maute where he hath drained the Countrey by contributions and now means to brave it in Town here this Winter Buckingham is mending but not a word of comfort yet to any of them from the Low-Countreys If the Dutch miscarry in their design they are resolv'd to take up the rotten Interest of young Stewart Stermont

A ROPE FOR POL. OR A HUE and CRY after MARCHEMONT NEDHAM The late Scurrulous News-writer Being a Collection of his horrid Blasphemies and Revilings against the King's Majesty his Person his Cause and his Friends published in his weekly Politicus 2 Sam. 19. 21. Shall not Shimei be put to death for this because he cursed the Lords annointed 1 Kings 2. 44 45. The King said moreover to Shimei Thou knowest all the wiceednesse thy heart is privy to that thou didst to David my Father therefore the Lord shall return thy wickednesse upon thine own head And King Solomon shall be blessed and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. An Advertisement to the READER IT has been made a Question long agoe whether more mischief then advantage were not occasion'd to the Christian world by the Invention of Typography But never was any Question more fully determin'd then this has been of late years in these Nations We have seen the Hierarchy of the Church of England traduc'd and profan'd by the Writings of zealous Incendiaries the pious and learned Governours of it loaded with loaded and accusations the reverend Clergy decry'd and almost proscrib'd yea Religion it self publickly struck at the mysteries of it despis'd by notorious Hereticks the Holy Ordinances declaim'd against by Fanaticks and Enthusiasts This in the Church In the State we have seen Sedition and Rebellion defended and propagated in full Treatises Murder Treachery Rapine Perjury Ambition Tyranny Oppression Persidiousnesse justify'd and applauded Calumny taken into the Arts of State the steps of Gods Annointed stander'd his Honour wounded with scurrility and reproach his person expos'd to scorn and derision his sufferings insulted over his just Title maliciously and impudently debas'd and the Honourable and Loyal of the Land basely aspers'd and derided Writings of this strain and many-others as they have been the issue of trayterous and postilent minds so they have been brought into the world and propagated by the assistance of the Presse But what was by others singly attempted in several waies has been in all practis'd by the late Writer of Politious Marchemont Nedham whose scurrilous Pamphlets flying every Week into all parts of the Nation 't is incredible what influence they had upon numbers of unconsidering persons who have a strange presumption that all must needs be true that is in Print This was the Goliah of the Philistines the great Champion of the late Vsurper whose Pen was in comparison of others like a Weavers beam and certainly he that shall peruse these Papers will judge that had the Devil himself the Father of Lies and who has his name from Calnmny been in this mans office he could not have exceeded him It will therefore I conceive be demanded wherefore these exceptions are now publish'd and not rather suffer'd to perish in perpetual oblivion and perhaps it will be judg'd that they deserve rather to be burn'd then read That they may be so that so grand a Delinquent Blasphemer of Gods annointed as the Author may not through the inconsider ablenesse of his person passe untaken notice of but may have some share in that satisfaction which is now intended to Iustice is the reason of this publication I have no enmity to his person but me thinks there is some kind of necessity that he that hath with so much malice calumniated his Sovereign so scurrulously abused the Nobility so impudently blasphemed the Church and so industriously poysoned the people with dangerous principles should at least carry some mark about him as the recompence of his villanies Farewel A ROPE for POLL OR A HUE and CRY AFTER MARCHEMONT NEDHAM WHy should not the Commonwealth have a Fool as well as the King had 't is a point of State and the ready Road to preferment and a Ladies Chamber Is not this a ticklish time to write Intelligence but what ever happens you shall have it to the purpose for I fear no Colours neither Black Coat nor Blew-Cap nor that Raw-head and Bloody-bones in the Royal Banner of Scotland Long may the Scotch Royal Progeny and Priesthood be all fellowes at Football and enjoy Sunshine once a Quarter for the reviving of Factions that they may never return again to stroke the Gils of the City and compare Notes with the Clergy for the Restauration of their Members and the thrice Reverend Assembly The depth of the Plot is to Barrell up their King like other Merchandise in a Dutch Hoy that he may slink away among the Fishermen and be Landed anywhere in a Kingly Pickle upon the Coast of Scotland For his better entertainment when he comes to Edinburgh there is Montross's Head of the Kirks own dressing provided for his Breakfast and mounted on the Town-house on purpose to bid him welcome and many thanks for the remembrance of his famous Services which the young man having one quality of a King hath already learned to forget How much better must it needs be for the Cavalry to live in peace with their own Country men under the present Government then to ruine themselves and Families to restore the unlucky Family of a Scot Those are the shame of Presbytery and the Goblins of that Party who make a Scarecrow of the Covenant to fright the People these are the precious Vessels that can Sail with a side-wind and tack about any way with a foisted scruple of Conscience so it be to satisfy their Concupiscence and serve a faction these are the Dreamers that speak evill of Dignities Prince Rupert being Commander in Chief over all the Squibbs and petty fire-works for his poor Majesty of Scotland The Scots put up a politick Prayer for him that God would turn his Episcopal heart to the Scottish modules and make him worship their Grand Idol as his only Diana and prove himself more affectionate to her than ever he was to any of his Mothers Maids of Honour when he lay in France at St. Germans An Act past for setling the Militia of London the next I hope will be for settling the Militia of our Priesthood of London 'T is a wonder to all men they dare be so Impudent as to make a Morter piece of the Pulpit shooting Squibs and Granadoes to blow up the Parliament certainly these people have a world of Lechery in Faction the four and twentieth of Iune is comming and they had best beware they be not taken napping for their Adulteries with the great Whore of Scotland but the comfort is they are pretty well guelt-of their Iure Divino I hope to see Crowns passe for Two pence a piece and they that take them will lose by the bargain The late Queen of England continues still in the Monastery Monasteries you know were ever accounted holy places and 't is thought they are as godly in France as ever they were in England being very comfortable retreats

for ore worn and disconsolate sinners They say in France a Monck is every jot as good as a Gentleman Vsher and she hath many of them As for Newcastle he is to Act a Comedy in hope of supplies from his Majesty of Denmark his Lordship is a good Poet and a few begging Rythms may doe much when the Dane is in his Cups of which he may chance to send a dozen or two to his Cousin Stewart The King of Scotland was alive at Hounslaer-Dike where after he had given his Chaplain a few pence and a Passe for their Episcopacy they were discharged for ever coming within the Borders of the more Holy Presbytery I am confident not one Elder of an hundred but had rather dye the death of a Wittol then of a Traytor The Presbytery cry out that Politicus is an Atheist because he tosses the Kirk like a Foot-ball and jerks their Hypocrisy O ye Publican Sectaries and Harlots come ye not neer them for these are the Congregation of Dathan and Abiram who stood upon Holy ground and are more holy then you if you list to believe them these are the little Levites that cannot abide you because your sacrilegious Troopers have carried away all the Provender of Reformation and tyed them up to the Manger Wo and alass for the glory of the Priesthood who since they have lost their Command must not look hereafter to go so merrily a wiving because they cannot promise their pretty Mistrisses to make them Queens of the Parish no more must they march like George-a-horseback upon their steeds to Westminster with their Hearts full of Pluralities and Tythes Their Souls swoln with pride their Heads with Faction beyond the Pomp of a Diocess and other appurtinances of their Iure Divino no longer shall they sit Cheek by Joule with the supreme Authority in the state of an Assembly to Catechise the Parliament and con over their most elaborate Confession with the more wondrous Directory which being once past the Press were worn out in Chappels of Ease though they cost us many thousands with their four shillings a day wages and more then three years patience ere the works were brought to perfection His Kingship of Scotland took his Journey from Breda to the Hague his Brother Orange providing him ships for a Convoy Because he durst not trust himself with the Schippers for fear he might have been put off with other small fish and sent in pickle to England therefore in regard these ships were but borrowed the young man went aboard and bad them strike sail for three Kingdomes when he can catch them Thrice they put to Sea and as oft were driven back so that the wind had like to have blown away the Shuttle cock of Monarchy Certainly the Chicken of this family are none of the Halcyon brood because never without a storm old Mary Queen of Scots never crossed the sea but in a storm her son King Iames scap't it because he never was so valiant as to venture or else he had raised a storm in his Breeches His son Charles went a wooing to Spain in a storm and so Returned c. and since the storm ever follows by land as well as by water I suppose it was wisely done of the Parliament to throw them all over board to save themselves and the Vessel But I hear he is blown back again by that pretended blast of Honour and Conscience that blasted his Father The Kirk are very Righteous even as Righteous as their elder Brethren the Pharisees ten of whose Righteousnesses would have hardly saved a Louse out of Gommorrha Judge you then whether the Kirk be not bravely inthroned in Scotland where she destines whom she pleaseth to death and causeth them to kiss the Scaffold and those whom she pleases to let live she makes to kiss her Breech or serve without Ceremony for a Foot-stool The bold Whore bolder then her sister Babylon would faine come hither a madding and set up her trade here in England The King is at a pause because he perceives without the help of Astrology that his head may be made the price of their peace and security he remembers who they were that hunted his great Grandmother like a Polcat and were suspected for hanging her Husband who they were likewise that Baited his Grandsire Jemmy and whipt him out of his Royalty also how they handled his Father and therefore he will look before he leaps having Cause to fear that the same Rods are laid in piss now by the Kirk and her Assembly When they send young Tarquin for a Token to his Friends in England This is like to be the last King that ever they shall be Masters of And if they be wise they will have their pennyworths out of him for all his Projects He hath play'd fast and loose with Them and Montrosse at the same time I mean the same Montrosse that was the Gallant Royalist whom they buried under the Gallows in pure love to his Majesty if he please to believe them This is Dad's own Son two faces under one hood being an Hereditary Posture Montrosse acted nothing but by his instigation and commission for which they hanged him in a most Presbyterian manner and yet at the same time the Kirk opens her bosome most lovingly to receive His Master as her son into her protection The Crime is the same in both but the guilt greater in him being the Author than in Montrosse the Actor wherefore I must here proclaim to all the world the partiality and hypocrisie of the Presbyterians that they should anathematize one Delinquent even to Hell and the Death and Burial of a Dog yet spare another more guilty then he and not only so but give him sugar-sops c. Ormond according to the common fate of all Lords is a thing that lives but by Courtesie As for the rest of the Runnagates the Curse of Cain pursues them beyond hopes of a Pardon All that begins with the name of Charles is unlucky and must down I cannot blame them more then their Brother Curres here in England The Duke of York is a good Boy to be doing abroad I say and not a Rambling after Charles now upon his Voyage to Whitehall for if he be catcht here he will be soundly whipt for running away from St. Iames's The young Lad of Scotland hath left Holland No Letters come yet upon what Coast young Tarquin is a Fishing Madam Kirk and a Baby King A Dainty Covenant with other rare knacks The Ministers or Scotch Trumpeters It is not known yet in what part of the World young Tarquin is landed The late Duke of York is turned Serving-man to his Cousin the King of France who hath bestowed a Cast office upon him being made Commander of his Scottish Ianizaries a warm place believe me and if it will hold I

come along with the Grandees in hope to purchase a fortune by squeezing the publick Let the whole Nation also consider that if young Tarquin come in by Conquest he will be as absolute as was William the Conquerour and we all must be in the same slavish condition as our forefathers were under this Norman Bastard by having our Birthrights trampled under foot our Parliaments Laws Liberties and Priviledges resolved all into the the will of an arbitrary Tyrant and his Scottish Privy Council 'T is reported their King meaning our most gracious Lord and Soveraign blames Major Astnerst for bringing him to Lancashire since he finds no more accesse of forces I do not hear that any considerable person doth openly own him since his march into England wherefore we doubt not but God hath ordered his coming hither for the more speedy ruine of him and his Adherents What a happinesse it is to live to see this day wherein we have experience of the noble temper of our Nation that though many of them be divided in matter of particular Interest and Opinion yet they so well understand the General Interest of England that they scorn to embarque themselves in such courses as must of necessity either debase us under the miserable yoak of a Scottish Tyranny or vassalize us under the will of an everlasting Tyrant for had God given over the people to run a madding after the Royal Puppet we could have expected no other consequents but endlesse Taxes and inevitable slavery But the world is grown wiser now then to throw away their Lives and Estates for a Trifle call'd a King an Officer that we have little cause to be in love with if we take a view of them all since the Conquest As it was said of old concerning Israel that God gave them a King in his wrath So we may say of our own Nation if we view all the practises of our Kings that they seem to have been given by God as the Scourges and Rods of his anger rather then Tokens of favour unto the people and this in our last meaning his 64 Number was in part made evident by giving you a Character of each King since the Conquest to the end of Edward the second therefore now in the next place give me leave to trace them downward to the present Age drawing them in their Pourtraictures after the Copy of our English Chronicles and then let every different man judge how little reason we have to be in love with Kings and how much the whole Nation are obliged unto the Parliament for blotting out so pernicious and tyrannical a Session Then after the enumeration of the rest till Queen Elizabeth and so to King Iames the Scot brought in as he saith with and for a plague to the Nation the whole design of whose Reign was to undermine the Liberties of England who layd the main Plot of Tyranny and then being sent as his son Henry down into another world he left his son Charles to execute it Charles being in the Saddle took a course to ride the Nation quite off its Legs all his Reign was to enslave and embroile the People and to enhance the Prerogative for which he died a Martyr being executed a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick Enemy to the Nation As for the Title of the present young Pretender meaning his most gracious Majesty remember from whence he had it and how it is now tainted had it been just yet the Treason of the Father hath cut off the Son who hath lived already to embroile Scotland and now takes the same course in England His Interest is revenge against the very Nation for the effecting whereof he hath harassed the Land with a desperate crew of Barbarians Consider what misery we have had by Kings in times past and how they may be multiplied in time to come Tyranny hath been the practise and design you see of the whole race but admit this young Boutefeu and he will soon bring it to perfection then farewell to Parliaments Laws Liberties and Estates which will be little enough for the haughty Scot whose hopes and aims are all levelled at these and his quarrel at the very name and Nation of the English If after so many eminent discoveries of the will and purpose of God touching the establishment of this Commonwealth any man shall be such a Sot as to continue a Malignant let him remember how God useth to dispose of his incorrigible and implacable enemies But I perceive one main impediment that keeps men from quitting their old corrupt principles is the fear of being counted a Turn-coat yet know that if God once declare as it were from heaven against thy wayes thy Principles or thy Party then it is no dishonour but ingenuity and thy duty to turn for he hath said in this case If a man do not turn he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready he hath prepared for him the instruments of death and destruction Let the old Malignants and Cavaliers consider that in what shape they have appeared with what pretences soever they have clothed their Conferences yet God hath found them out and confounded them Let the new Malignants of the Presbyterian opinion consider how often and notoriously God hath check't them and cursed their unrighteous combination with the old Malignants Let both old and new consider what an inseparable course is annexed as I have often told you to the Family and Interest of the Tarquins that it proves ruine and destruction to all that own it Let England her self and all the Nations about consider what God hath done for England and how in this auspicious time of Triall he gave in the hearts of the people to live and dye for the present Government Lastly let all Parties consider it is high time to lay aside animosities and unite again upon the common interest of our Nation and there is no doubt but the Parliament will consider that as God hath his design of glory in all these things so it should be their design to improve them all to that end and for the ease and benefit of so willing and obedient a people If ever there were a season of observation or rather admiration certainly it is the present wherein we have been eye-witnesses of so many outgoings of God's presence among us and the many miraculous turns of providence within a short Revolution Some memorable hints of those things you had in our last meaning his Relation of the fight at Worcester But now observe farther and in the first place from whence came the rise of all our distractions of which we may truly say according to the old Proverb used by our Fathers In nomine Domini incipit omne malum all our evills have been derived from the corruption of the Clergy and such of the Laity as have been wedded to their Faction The first